Hotel & Transportation Information PDP
Participants in the Professional Development Program (PDP) attend the Inquiry Institute and the Design Institute.
Inquiry Institute: Monterey, CA, March 11-14, 2025
Location: Monterey, CA, at the Hyatt Monterey. All sessions are held at the Hyatt, and all participants stay at the Hyatt (sharing a room with another participant). ISEE books all hotel rooms directly; do not contact the hotel.
Participant arrival date: Evening of March 10, 2025. If local, early morning of March 11, 2025 (arrive by 8am).
Program start time: meeting starts at 8:30am PST on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
Program end time: session ends after the dinner celebration on Friday, March 14, 2025.
Participant departure date: Morning of Saturday March 15, 2025 (hotel check-out at 11am)
Meals: Lunch is provided every day of the Institute, as well as final dinner on Friday night. Participants arrange and pay for their breakfast and dinner; many restaurants are within one mile and participants typically walk together or use taxi/rideshare. Hotel rooms have refrigerators.
Airport information: Monterey Regional Airport (MRY) is just 2 miles from the hotel (see airlines that go to MRY here); San Jose Airport (SJC) is an alternative but is ~70 miles from hotel.
Ground transportation from airports: Participants arrange and pay for their ground transportation to and from airports.
Rental cars and transportation during Institute: Participants generally do not need rental cars, and the program does not reimburse rental car costs. During the Institute (e.g. for dinners), participants often walk together or share the cost of a taxi/rideshare.
Parking at hotel: No additional fee. Self parking is available.
Santa Cruz Design Institute: Santa Cruz, April 17-18, 2025
Participant arrival date: Evening of Wednesday, April 16, 2025. If local, early morning of Thursday, April 17 works.
Program start time: meeting starts at 8:30 am on Thursday, April 17, 2025
Program end time: session concluding around 5-6 pm on Friday, April 18. DTLs may need to stay until 6:30.
Participant departure date: Evening of Friday, April 18 or morning of Saturday, April 19, 2025.
Attire is casual for most of the sessions, but it is entirely up to each individual. Be prepared to dress in layers. Temperatures in Monterey are variable over the course of the day/night. The nights and mornings tend to be foggy and chilly while the daytime can be sunny and warmer.
See the Travel FAQ page for more details.
Teaching Site Travel, Summer-Fall 2025
ISEE will cover some of your travel costs if you need to travel to your teaching site. We appreciate participants’ efforts to keep these travel costs down, as this helps us support more participants (and even run future PDPs).
The specifics for each site will be communicated to you, however in general:
Getting to the teaching site: If you need to take a flight or make a significant drive (over 60 miles) to your teaching sute, ISEE can cover your flight or driving costs. Note that ISEE can only cover the lower cost option between driving or flying. See the Travel FAQ page for more details.
Hotel near teaching site: If you do not live near the teaching site, ISEE can cover the cost of double-occupancy lodging.
Meals: Participants will be expected to arrange and pay for many of their meals during travel to the teaching sites in most cases.
Ground transportation to and from airports: Participants will be expected to arrange and pay for the cost of ground transportation to and from airports in most cases.
Renting a car during teaching: In some cases, ISEE may be able to cover the cost of a rental car for a team during teaching. To keep costs down, we ask teams to share a rental car if possible. Program staff will help coordinate.
